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TARG, RUSSELL. (2004). Limitless mind: A guide to remote viewing and transformation of consciousness. Foreword by Jean Houston. Novato, CA: New World Library. xxix + 209 pp. ISBN 1-57731-413-1. Paperback, $14.95. Reviewed by Mark A. Schroll.
Mentioning "remote viewing" creates immediate cognitive dissonance in those of us that accept psi as real because sceptics immediately ask, "how does it work?" Attempts to bolster this discussion with experimental data sounds impressive at first, yet our ability to accept "limitless mind" is not an empirical problem-but a conceptual one. Data, in other words, is auxiliary to hypothesis and theory, and Russell Targ gets right to the point as to what the conceptual problem is: we live in a non-local reality. Still this leaves many of us again adrift, as we seek to relate psi and non-locality. Realizing this, Targ gives us a 10 page crash course on quantum relativity theory and its relationship to psi research. Those of us without a background in physics and East/West philosophical traditions will find this discussion challenging.
Many of us know that modern physics currently lacks a metaphor. Psi's method of drawing impressions to provide access to symbols and nonanalytical unconscious processes could provide a means to envision this metaphor. Likewise for example Jung's interpretation of Wolfgang Pauli's dream of "the world clock" that led them to...